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As you have probably have heard, Facebook has now over 500 million active users and is still growing. If you have a business and you are still not marketing your business on Facebook, you are crazy. Now is the perfect time to be using Facebook. Below is a 97 paged presentation by Chad Richards, he is going to share with you effective ways of using Facebook to market your business. Also have shared a fantastic presentation by Onitz on how to set up super cool Facebook fan pages. Enjoy

Facebook For Business
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Facebook Fan Pages – A Step By Step Guide
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It can be hard to track how you are performing across social media and across the internet, but with powerful monitoring tools you can judge the effectiveness of your social media efforts and keep track of what people are saying about your business, your products or services.

Here are three of the best social media monitoring Tools for free to monitor your brand’s performance and results across multiple social media sites.

Addict-o-matic

Addict-o-matic – This tool gives you comprehensive information that will be invaluable for monitoring your performance in social media. It gathers information about your keywords or brands from across the Web, including Flickr, news, YouTube, Digg, Blogs, as well as most known social media platforms. You can also create a custom page with the latest buzz on any topic you want.

Boardreader

Boardreader – is a search engine for forums and message boards for your keywords, bringing up the latest results which you can click through to, as well as graphs that will trend your results over certain time periods. Keep an eye on the conversations in forums, as these can give you an insight into how people feel about your brand.

Social Mention

Social Mention – is an social media search engine that searches user-generated content such as blogs, bookmarks, events, news, comments, and videos all in real-time. As well as displaying the latest results, it also gives you a related keywords, reach and many other useful metrics.

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Getting backlinks to your site is essential if you want to increase your rankings in the search engines to get more traffic to your site. If you want to find places in your niche where you can leave links, you’ll learn how here.

Before you submit comments to blogs or forum signature links, look for sites rank 3 or more it gives a good indication of a popular site, Use plugin SEO Quake or SEO Firefox to check for page ranks.

When you leave your comments, make sure its valuable information and related to the post. You can instantly build a good reputation in these communities and reach out to your prospects with just a few forum posts and a very enticing signature that shows them the links to your website.

1/ Finding Blogs

If you want to find a Wordpress-based blog in your niche where you can leave comments and get valuable backlinks in the process, here are some examples of what you can type into Google to find them:

Just enter your keyword, you get sites that have those words somewhere on the page

“your keyword” + “do follow blog”

or try

“your keyword” + “do follow blogs”

If you get a lot of blogs that have their comments closed, you can use the
following command to exclude those from your searches.

“powered by wordpress” your keyword -comments are closed

2/ Finding Forums

“your keyword” + “forum”

“your keyword” + “forums”

Doing these methods manually can be time consuming, I recommend outsourcing these tasks or use automated tools likeSEO Blueprint

SEO Analysis Tools helps you to analyze and measure the ranking potential of your web pages. In just a single click you will get a crystal clear report on changes that must be done to your webpage such as on-page and off page optimization and optimization of competitor analysis. I currently use some of these tools for my full time job as a search engine optimization specialist. Let Me know what you think by leaving a comment below!

Link Diagnosis

Link Diagnosis – Using this online tool and its addon for Firefox you can get a detailed view of the backlinks to your site and get information such as Page Rank of the linking page, link strength, keywords used etc.

Rank Checker

Rank Checker – is a free Firefox plugin tool from Aaron Wall – founder of SEOBook.com. Rank checker is used to automatically track your rankings (and rank changes) on Google, Yahoo and Bing.

Majestic SEO

Majestic SEO – (Free limited use) is a comprehensive backlink analysis service developed by Majestic-12 allowing for monthly backlink reporting and charts. This tool is mostly used by SEO specialists.

Spydermate

Spydermate – Free SEO analysis tool that offers on-page keyword analysis, overview of your site’s search engine rankings and site-by-site competitor comparison great tool for both SEO experts and SEO beginners.

There are several ways to make money online, I have tried and tested different online business models, some were successfully, some were not, but its down to what you feel comfortable with doing. I have shared methods that have worked for me. Hopefully this article will help you decide which method is best for you.

1/ Offer Or Sell A Service

The best and the least expensive way to make money online is to provide a service to other people, whether you are a dog groomer, programmer, seo expert everyone needs something done for them, you can do this by advertising your services offline through friends and family, make sure you set up your own blog or site advertising your services and promote your brand online using social media.

2/ Create And Sell Your Own Products

You would need a bit of capital if you are going to create your own products, unless you have graphic design and programming skills, you would need to outsource the work if you want quality and professional looking products. You can create ebooks, training materials, webinars, software and much more. Read my free product creation report for more details – Download Free Report

3/ Set Up Your Own Retail Store

I have sold products via Ebay its a great way to make extra income, but depending on what product you are selling, Ebay can be very saturated and you would need to stand out from the crowd, the alternative to this is to have your own retail store. I use and recommend Niche Blueprint 2.0, its a step by step training course that teaches you how to market and set up your own online retail store quite easily.

4/ Set Up Your Own Social Networking site

Creating your own social networking sites is not difficult at all, there are free scripts and paid scripts you can used to create a social networking sites you could use scripts like Ning, Kickapps, phpfox and many others. If you need to make changes to a script just hire a programmer from many of the freelancers websites such as Get A Coder.

Other Ways To Make Money Online
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Before you start creating your online business, make sure you do your market research first check out pervious Posts: Find Product Ideas , How To Choose The Right Niche (part 1)